Denise D’Sant Angelo completed her sentence behind bars for stealing $2,800 that local donors had intended to help three nuns find housing. D’Sant Angelo, who was sentenced to a two-year prison term but served her time in County Jail, will be headed to trial soon to face separate allegations of financial elder abuse, several counts Keep Reading…
Politics can be often argued as the root of all change. The functioning of any society sprouts from a large factor being their established and outlined political system. The greatest changes to everyday functioning, whether good or bad, are typically brought about through political means. However, how can anything be expected to be fixed if Keep Reading…
For anyone not already tone deaf with a case of earsplitting self-interest, a court-appointed attorney in Maricopa County, Arizona’s Probate Court offers his own cogent solution to what’s become a contest of the dueling probate reformers at the state capitol. The attorney’s name is Jon D. Kitchel and he’s in private practice. Currently, two bills, Keep Reading…
Legislatures across the country are working to enact civil justice reforms to improve their business climates, attract investment and encourage job creation. A round-up: TENNESSEE Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee included a package of reforms in his legislative recommendations, calling for a $750,000 cap on non-economic damages, such as pain and emotional suffering, and limiting Keep Reading…
On an average day last year, the Texas attorney general received 87 letters from government agencies seeking permission to withhold information requested by reporters, taxpayers and other interested parties. The daily deluge added up to 21,044 requests to keep information private in 2010, a sixfold jump since 1998. The number reflects greater citizen use of Keep Reading…
Estate of Denial® provides news, analysis and commentary on abusive practices occurring in probate courts and via probate instruments (wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney). We provide original perspective to educate the public regarding this growing threat to both individual freedoms and property rights.An estate lawyer accused of a “wrongful scheme” to steer money to himself from the estates of the late June M. Farrington and her surviving brother will pay back $410,000 as part of a settlement. Estate lawyer Stephen M. Newman also resigned as executor and trustee of all of the estates and trusts he set Keep Reading…
Shannon Price failed to prove that she and Gary Coleman had a common-law marriage after their 2009 divorce. Fourth District Judge James R. Taylor ruled Monday that while Price had lived in the former “Diff’rent Strokes” star’s home after their marriage ended, the relationship failed to meet the state’s standard for a common-law marriage. “There Keep Reading…
Police Detective Jason Takacs has two thick files filled with paperwork supporting charges that a local deli owner bilked three elderly siblings of more than $200,000. Takacs credits cooperation among police, People’s United Bank, the Fairfield Probate Court and a forensic accountant from the chief state’s attorney’s office with the Thursday arrest of Carmella Jamshidian, Keep Reading…
Here’s more big government “smoke and mirrors” from the state of Texas. In watching media postings across the country, it’s highly trendy to decry the need to protect the elderly and the vulnerable. It makes people feel good to think “someone” is out there with an eye on things. Problem comes in that those “someones” Keep Reading…
Two of Don Barden’s siblings have alleged “gross irregularities” in the handling of the late casino mogul’s estate, including a potentially phony trust agreement. “It quite simply appears to be a fraud,” Farmington Hills attorney Steven Cohen charged in court papers last month. He represents Helen Robinson and Douglas Barden, who are challenging the validity Keep Reading…
